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Chemicals businesses must not delay on digitalisation if they want to transform their operations, says Paige Marie Morse
Type: Feature
Wendy Wilson reports on the actions from the IChemE Member Engagement survey
Type: Feature
Amanda Jasi speaks to Albert Cabrejo and Leonnardo Probst about their company’s radar-based technology, which is used to manage potentially tragic mining failures
Type: Feature
IChemE Fellow awarded Australia Day honours
ICHEME Fellow Geoffrey Stevens, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Melbourne, has been awarded Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day 2020 Honours list.
Type: News
Obituary of John Davidson, often referred to as a “founding father of fluidisation” in chemical engineering and former IChemE president
Type: News
16 charged with homicide over fatal Brazil dam collapse
BRAZILIAN prosecutors have charged 16 people – including former Vale CEO Fabio Schvartsman – with homicide and environmental crimes relating to the fatal collapse of a Vale tailings dam last year, which killed at least 259 people.
Type: News
World Engineering Day set for 4 March
WORLD Engineering Day for Sustainable Development will be celebrated on 4 March every year as a UNESCO international day of celebration.
Type: News
CPI partners with ImmunoBiology to produce pneumococcal vaccines that don’t require cold chain
CPI is partnering with ImmunoBiology (ImmBio) to develop a vaccine that protects against illnesses such as pneumonia but is stable when stored at higher temperatures.
Type: News
IChemE Fellows feature as experts in TV documentary about engineering safety
THREE IChemE Fellows will feature as experts in a new ten-part television documentary series about engineering safety incidents, to be aired on the UK Discovery Channel.
Type: News
LSC member quits over climate change concerns
TOM BAXTER has resigned from IChemE’s Learned Society Committee (LSC) because he feels the Institution’s position on climate change is too weak. In response, LSC Chair Jarka Glassey has said that IChemE is materially taking action to help members address climate change and that a formal position formed through wider consultation with members will take time to develop.
Type: News
Several factors led to fatal Brazil dam collapse, reports expert panel
AN expert panel commissioned by Brazilian mining giant Vale has concluded that a number of factors, including a steep slope design and high water level, combined to create the conditions for failure that led to the fatal collapse of a Vale tailings dam last year.
Type: News
The Imperfections of Accident Analysis
Four key ideas that help us understand the real world of work.
Type: Feature
Three chemical engineers recognised in New Year’s Honours
THREE Fellows of IChemE have been awarded in the Queen’s 2020 New Year’s Honours list. Lynn Gladden has been recognised with a Damehood, and Mark Apsey and Adisa Azapagic have been awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
Type: News
NZ PM visits milk processing plant to see novel boiler and launch tree-planting scheme
NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has visited milk processing company Synlait for a tour of the country’s first large-scale electrode boiler and to help launch the company’s new tree planting initiative.
Type: News
‘Artificial leaf’ for carbon neutral syngas production
RESEARCHERS at the University of Cambridge, UK, have demonstrated simple and sustainable syngas production using a carbon neutral “artificial leaf” device, setting a new benchmark in the field of solar fuels.
Type: News
Clever Denitrification Bugs; or How Poor Communication Nearly Derailed a Major Development
How poor communication nearly derailed a major development
Type: Feature
Malaysia PM: Petronas could be sold to pay down debt
STAKES in state-energy firm Petronas could be sold to Malaysia’s oil-producing states to raise money for the Government, Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad has told Reuters.
Type: News
Steam cracking transforms waste plastic into new
A PROCESS has been developed for steam cracking of plastic waste to produce new plastic, which could be integrated into existing petrochemical facilities.
Type: News
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Matt Longley
From working in water treatment to paving the way for film productions including Harry Potter
Type: Feature
Mohamed Azlan Hussain and Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua explain how a natural disaster led to demonstration and further development of a mobile self-cleaning water filtration unit
Type: Feature
